Adobe comments on PageMaker for Mac OS X
updated 05:15 pm EDT, Wed July 11, 2001
Adobe's Terry White has commented on the lack of Carbon compatibility in the release of Adobe PageMaker 7.0, which was announced as shipping today: "It was...stated in our initial OS X commitment that the next versions of PageMaker and FrameMaker would *NOT* be carbonized. Both products are older code bases and it will take more effort to Carbonize them." An Adobe representative revealed earlier this week that the first two Adobe products released for Mac OS X would be InDesign and Illustrator.



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It seems strange that Framemaker would be difficult to carbonize considering that I was using Framemaker v3 on a NeXT system back in 1993. So unless all the code that Adobe added after taking control of Framemaker turned a perfectly good NeXT program into "older code base" it seems little disingenious to use this as an excuse.